space environment №316 10.02.2021 (2021)

Baikonur, preparation for the launch of the Progress MS-16 transport ship.

The training sessions of new cosmonaut candidates are scheduled by the hour.

Sergey Kud-Sverchkov talks on social networks about working on the ISS.

Gagarin Space Center, cosmonauts training in the hydrolaboratory.

Baikonur, the Arktika-M spacecraft has been transported to the assembly and testing building, says Alexander Churkin, chief designer of space systems and complexes of JSC VNIIEM Corporation.

One line:

- Progress MS-15 has been undocked from the ISS and taken out of orbit;

- The Tianwen-1 probe took the first picture of Mars;

- Playing golf on the moon on February 6, 1971, Alan Shepard's missing ball is found;

- The Kraken Sea on Titan.

ExoMars-2016 explores carbon monoxide on Mars, says Alexander Trokhimovsky.

Chronograph: February 10 is the 110th anniversary of the birth of Academician Mstislav Keldysh.

Astrophoto of the week: the Cocoon nebula or IC5146, a lunar halo over snow-covered trees in Sweden, the center of the Rosette nebula.

The question about space: Is there background radiation inside and outside the orbital station?

Says cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.